Third meningitis death hits North
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Your support makes all the difference.A baby has become the third youngster to die of meningitis in the north east of England in the past week, it was disclosed last night.
Seven-month-old Mark Casey, of Sunderland, died in Newcastle General hospital a week after being admitted with meningococcal septicaemia. His mother Caroline said: "He just came out in blotches all over. They gave him a scan and said he had two lumps on his brain."
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